the history boys

i just watched the history boys just now. was a wonderful show. i felt i tinge (not just a tinge, a lot more) of jealousy that i wouldn't be able to study in a place as beautiful as cambridge or oxford. or not being able to just take arts modules as much as i like (i wish i had been an arts students now).

ah, it's just sad not being able to go exchange or noc or whatever. to think that i had once almost going to apply for LEP, to NOC, and to SEP (see the aim got lower and lower and lower to non-existent now). i just wished i had been smarter, i had worked harder, etc.

but then again, as a friend told me before, i'm lucky to have the best of both worlds. so why should i whine so much? (: seriously, that was the truest thing i've heard in the past year. everyone have been telling me that i'm sacrificing too much for hall and stuffs.

anyway, talking about coincidence, zhenyi was at vivo just a few minutes before my show ends. when i reached back hall, i met maryanne after so long not seeing her around. when i told her about history boys, she said that she might watch it tomorrow if the timing is favourable for her and her bf.

anyway, memorable phrases. really, watching the show made me cringe at time at how sharp these boys were, reminded me so much of my sji english teacher (who's now teaching at nygh i think) and my jc gp teacher (last i heard, she's in canada).

"i know, it's a phase. what if I don't want it to pass? I wouldn't mind. But the pain, the *pain*." -posner

the whole inoculation speech by hector, i think it went something like this: "See it as an inoculation. the pain, it will give you immunity. and the occasional boosters will probably give you immunity for half of your lifetime." -hector

"history is just one f****** thing after another." -rudge (at first i thought it was raj, up till the ending credits ^^ )

"The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -hector (taken from imdb)

anyway, as a little trivia, the show was an adaptation to a play by alan bennett with the same title, played in national theatre (london).